July 17, 2009

Reactions to Sarah Palin’s decision to resign the governorship of Alaska have been a reminder of her unmatched ability to elicit strong emotions from friend and foe alike. We know some of the reasons why. It’s her evangelical Christianity and her folksy manner. It’s her small-town roots and her “new feminism.” But there is something more. A year ago, Palin gave birth to her youngest son, Trig, who has Down syndrome. Since then, mother and son have become objects of the left’s unrelenting scorn and the right’s unflinching fidelity…

A Down Syndrome child the object of scorn from the left? Good grief...

And that comes from a party whose darling president dissed the Special Olympics apparently because they were a creation of the Kennedy/Shriver family...?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/washington/11surgeon.html?_r=1

Yeah, Obama made his Special Olympics comment too, but the rightwingers politicized the S.O. before the left did, thus all their moaning and whining about how the left doesn't like kids with special needs.